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The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, July 25, 2024

July 25, 2024 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Definite Trickle by Pat Byrnes, PoliticalCartoons.com
Definite Trickle by Pat Byrnes, PoliticalCartoons.com

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Weather: Mostly sunny. A chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Highs in the lower 90s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40 percent. Thursday Night: Partly cloudy with a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening, then mostly cloudy after midnight. Lows in the mid 70s. Southeast winds 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 30 percent.

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Today at a Glance:

Drug Court convenes before Circuit Judge Terence Perkins at 10 a.m. in Courtroom 401 at the Flagler County courthouse, Kim C. Hammond Justice Center 1769 E Moody Blvd, Bldg 1, Bunnell. Drug Court is open to the public. See the Drug Court handbook here and the participation agreement here.

The Palm Coast Beautification and Environmental Advisory Committee meets at 5 p.m. at City Hall, 160 Lake Avenue, Palm Coast.

The Flagler Beach City Commission meets at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall, 105 South 2nd Street in Flagler Beach. Watch the meeting at the city’s YouTube channel here. Access meeting agenda and materials here. See a list of commission members and their email addresses here.





Notably: A couple of greatest hits from The New York Times’s opinion wrap-up on the GOP convention: Matt Labash, author of the newsletter Slack Tide: “Trump was somewhat muted, nice and gracious. At least while on script. Very un-Trumpy. He almost seemed humbled by being shot. Can it endure? This is Trump. Of course it can’t. It didn’t even last one-fifth of his speech. Humility is for losers in the Trumpverse. So enjoy it while it lasts. Or lasted, since it’s already over. […] All political conventions are cringe-worthy idolatry fests. But even by those low standards, there was so much abject Trump flattery going on among his cultish speakers that if this had been Kim Jong-un’s convention, he’d have told his propagandists, “Hey, fellas, dial it back a little.” Zeynep Tufekci, Times columnist: “Great evening for golf and professional wrestling! Speakers included John Nieporte, a golf professional who caddied for Trump; Carrie Ruiz, the general manager of a Trump-owned golf course; Hogan (who ripped his shirt off); and Dana White, president of the U.F.C., a mixed martial arts promotion company.” Not to mention the inventor of Power Slap. Columnist David Brooks: “The rest of the Trump speech. There is no cure for narcissism. The part after the assassination-attempt story was one of the truly awful and self-indulgent political performances of our time. My brain has been bludgeoned into soporific exhaustion.” Pamela Paul, Times columnist: “Trump’s effort to convey vulnerability rang entirely opportunist and wholly insincere. It’s hard to imagine a near-death experience could be told in a way that evoked so little emotion. Something tells me this will not, in fact, be the last time he tells the story.”

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ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students

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Sunday, Aug 31
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

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My bet is that J.D. has no clue about this history of rising equality set closer to his actual home. Given his penchant for sudden adaptability we may now see his political ads embracing Moses. Or maybe not, out of fear that his most radical base may find it upsetting. If he decides to ignore this source of coalfield pride it will seem that he’s no more a student of Ohio than he is of the Kentucky mountains he visited as a youth. It will also be interesting during his senate campaign to see how J.D. pivots away from the damage he caused mountain people and regional pride with his degrading book and the over-the-top insulting movie that emanated from it. All I can think about regarding that disaster of a picture show, which our Mayberry mountain homie, Opie, shamelessly produced, is that Glenn Close must have had a mortgage payment overdue. Or, if J.D. is too busy flip-flopping to debate with a real mountaineer, maybe we can skip the talk shows and simply sit down and map out how to keep our kids and grandkids in the mountains they love, with a little less poverty on the side please.

–From Frank Kilgore’s J.D. Vance Is a Fake Hillbilly (2022).

 

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